Proverbs 18:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.

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  • Prov 19:14 : 14 House and riches are the inheritance of fathers, and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
  • Prov 12:4 : 4 A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but she who causes shame is as rottenness in his bones.
  • Prov 31:10-31 : 10 Who can find a virtuous woman? For her worth is far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband safely trusts in her, so he will have no lack of gain. 12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeks wool and flax, and works willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar. 15 She rises also while it is yet night, and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens. 16 She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. 17 She girds herself with strength and strengthens her arms. 18 She perceives that her merchandise is good; her lamp does not go out by night. 19 She lays her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. 20 She extends her hand to the poor; yes, she reaches forth her hands to the needy. 21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household, for all her household are clothed in scarlet. 22 She makes herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple. 23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land. 24 She makes fine linen and sells it, and delivers sashes to the merchant. 25 Strength and honor are her clothing, and she shall rejoice in time to come. 26 She opens her mouth with wisdom, and on her tongue is the law of kindness. 27 She watches over the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness. 28 Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her. 29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but you excel them all. 30 Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised. 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.
  • Eccl 9:9 : 9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in this life and in your labor which you take under the sun.
  • Prov 8:35 : 35 For whoever finds me finds life and will obtain favor from the LORD.
  • Gen 24:67 : 67 Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.
  • Gen 2:18 : 18 And the LORD God said, It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.
  • Prov 5:15-23 : 15 Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well. 16 Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of water in the streets. 17 Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you. 18 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth. 19 Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love. 20 And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and He ponders all his paths. 22 His own iniquities shall capture the wicked, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins. 23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
  • 1 Cor 7:2 : 2 Nevertheless, to avoid sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
  • Hos 12:12 : 12 Jacob fled into the country of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept sheep.
  • Gen 29:20-21 : 20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days, because of the love he had for her. 21 And Jacob said to Laban, Give me my wife, for my time is completed, that I may go in to her.
  • Gen 29:28 : 28 And Jacob did so and fulfilled her week, and he gave him Rachel his daughter as his wife also.
  • Prov 3:4 : 4 So you will find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 8:35
    80%

    35For whoever finds me finds life and will obtain favor from the LORD.

  • Prov 19:13-14
    2 verses
    78%

    13A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

    14House and riches are the inheritance of fathers, and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

  • Prov 31:10-12
    3 verses
    75%

    10Who can find a virtuous woman? For her worth is far above rubies.

    11The heart of her husband safely trusts in her, so he will have no lack of gain.

    12She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

  • Prov 18:21
    74%

    21Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.

  • Prov 5:18
    73%

    18Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.

  • Prov 3:16-18
    3 verses
    73%

    16Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor.

    17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

    18She is a tree of life to those who lay hold upon her: and happy is everyone who retains her.

  • Prov 3:4
    72%

    4So you will find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

  • Prov 3:13
    72%

    13Happy is the man that finds wisdom, and the man that gains understanding.

  • Prov 16:20
    72%

    20He who deals wisely in a matter will find good, and whoever trusts in the LORD, happy is he.

  • Prov 21:21
    72%

    21He who follows after righteousness and mercy finds life, righteousness, and honor.

  • Deut 22:28
    72%

    28If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and seizes her and lies with her, and they are found,

  • Prov 11:16
    71%

    16A gracious woman retains honor, and strong men retain riches.

  • Prov 19:8
    71%

    8He who gets wisdom loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding shall find good.

  • Prov 12:4
    71%

    4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but she who causes shame is as rottenness in his bones.

  • Prov 31:28-31
    4 verses
    71%

    28Her children rise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praises her.

    29Many daughters have done virtuously, but you excel them all.

    30Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.

    31Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.

  • Eccl 7:26-28
    3 verses
    71%

    26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be trapped by her.

    27Behold, this have I found, says the preacher, counting one by one to find out the sum.

    28Which my soul still seeks, but I find not; one man among a thousand I have found, but a woman among all those I have not found.

  • Prov 22:1
    70%

    1A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold.

  • Eccl 9:9
    70%

    9Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in this life and in your labor which you take under the sun.

  • Deut 24:1
    70%

    1When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a certificate of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

  • Prov 11:27
    70%

    27He who diligently seeks good procures favor, but he who seeks evil, it shall come to him.

  • Ps 128:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine by the sides of your house; your children like olive plants around your table.

    4Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD.

  • Prov 4:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8Exalt her, and she will promote you: she will bring you to honor, when you embrace her.

    9She will give to your head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory she will deliver to you.

  • Prov 12:2
    69%

    2A good man obtains favor from the LORD, but a man of wicked plans will He condemn.

  • Prov 4:6
    69%

    6Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you: love her, and she will keep you.

  • Prov 2:4
    69%

    4If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures;

  • Prov 18:23
    69%

    23The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly.

  • Prov 6:26
    69%

    26For by means of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

  • Prov 21:9
    69%

    9It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a spacious house with a contentious woman.

  • 1 Cor 7:38
    69%

    38So then he who gives her in marriage does well, but he who does not give her in marriage does better.

  • Prov 31:23
    68%

    23Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

  • Gen 2:24
    68%

    24Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

  • Gen 2:18
    68%

    18And the LORD God said, It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.

  • Col 3:18
    68%

    18Wives, submit to your own husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

  • Deut 22:23
    68%

    23If a young woman who is a virgin is betrothed to a husband, and a man finds her in the city and lies with her,

  • Prov 31:26
    68%

    26She opens her mouth with wisdom, and on her tongue is the law of kindness.